In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”
i am not heppy with any surveillance but the article mentioned two concrete cases.
samdesk a global crisis monitoting tool warned an executive of a demonstration that might put him in harms way. they used anthtopic’d model to plan an alternate root.
a guy typed into claude that he gad just bought an ak-47 and had the ceo in his sights. anthropic alerted the police but still wouldnt hand over the user’s chats citing privacy policies. soooo thats zero surveillance.
the article states that based on some jobs postings, the article writer had concluded that abthropic is creating some pre crime unit. i cant say they aren’t but the article can’t say they are.